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Anthoine Carre's original tablature. Let me know of any errors you find.
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Short ID: AC47.
Title: Sarabande.
Composer: Anthoine Carre.
Source: Livre de pieces de guitarre et de musique.
Page 47.
Date: ca. 1690?
Tuning: Baroque guitar (A D G B E).
Time sig: 3.
Fixes, modifications and comments (M=Measure; p=Place in measure; s=String):
None.
Comparison of Guitar 1 melody with the Treble part:
Pieces in this big suite have four parts: Guitar 1 and Guitar 2; and Treble
and Bass parts written in music notation. The upper line of Guitar 1
and the Treble part are so consistently identical, that it seems they are
supposed to be identical. IF you want the Guitar 1 melody to correspond
EXACTLY to the Treble part...
DO NOT STRUM the 1st string in the following chords. Write "." in the
tablature at: m16p1.
DO STRUM the 1st string in the following chords. Write "0" in the
tablature at: m1p1 m7p1 m12p1.
Tablature elements to be added by hand:
Slurs. If only a starting point is given, slur includes all the following
uninterrupted notes on the same string.
None.
Strums: Arrowheads ^ and v indicate strums. Open strings in strummed chords
were not shown in the tablature; add as many open strings as sound good.
Take a moment to re-draw the ^ arrowhead right at the top of the associated
stem.
Explanation of symbols:
" = trill (starting on upper neighbor).
, = mordent (none in this piece).
. = do not strum this string in the chord.
Octave doublings: If you are playing on a modern, single-string guitar,
consider adding or substituting the next octave up almost everywhere
you see a 4th- or 5th-string note.
Performance style: consider playing the 8th notes inegales, that is, as dotted
8ths or "swing" 8ths (triplet feel).
Leading measures in Carre's original tablature:
1 6 12. Last measure is 16.
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Baroque guitar (A D G B E). Leading measures: 1 10. Anthoine Carre.
^ __ ^ __ __ ^ __ ^ __ __ ^ ^ __ ^ ^ __ ^
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_____"0___1|_.______0|_________|_3_"3___0|_1_"3___3|_5______3|___"2___2|_3______||__3_"1___0|_1_
___1_______|_3_"3____|_1_"3___1|_1__5____|_3__5____|___"3____|_1__3____|_3______||__1__2____|_3_
___________|____0____|_________|____5____|_2_______|____0____|____2____|_______*||*_________|_2_
___2_______|_________|____3____|_2_______|_________|_3_______|_2_______|_______*||*_2_______|___
___3__3____|_2_______|_0_______|_3_______|_________|_________|_3_______|_2______||__3_______|___
___________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|________||__________|___
__ __ ^ __ __ ^ ^ __ ^ __ ^
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_"1___3|_5_"3___1|___"0___1|_3_"1___0|_._3___0|_1_______|________||_____________________________
_______|____0____|_1__1____|____3____|_3_3____|_1_"3___1|_1______||_____________________________
_______|____0____|_2__0____|____3____|________|_2__0____|_______*||_____________________________
__0____|_3_______|_2_______|_2_______|________|_3_______|_2_____*||_____________________________
_______|_________|_________|_________|_2_2____|_________|_3______||_____________________________
_______|_________|_________|_________|________|_________|________||_____________________________